Rupert Sheldrake Quotes

I've always been interested in plants because I'm a gardener, so I have a basic understanding of botany and things like that, but it's all self-taught.

I don't think that you can possibly embrace the kind of joy which one who has worked with plants and plant structures such as I have over a period of nearly 40 years, how wonderful the plant laboratory seems.

I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren't really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening.

In essence, the science of agronomy is inseparable from biology.

A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them.

A theoretical grounding in agronomy must, therefore, include knowledge of biological laws.

And the more profoundly the science of biology reveals the laws of the life and development of living bodies, the more effective is the science of agronomy.

I am not the only scientist to be struck by the power and meaning of Lamium album in bloom.

I am a scientist who studies plants. I like plants. I think about plants almost every hour of the day, and several hours of the night as well.

Plants are not like us, and the more you study plants, the more different and deep ways you see that they are not like us.

What do the botanists know? Our lives should go between the lichen and the bark. The eye may see for the hand, but not for the mind. We are still being born, and have as yet but a dim vision of sea and land, sun, moon, and stars, and shall not see clearly till after nine days at least.

Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle.

I've always had an affinity for growing things.

Some bioengineering is good, especially if it results in plants that are more drought-resistant or perennial food crops.

My brother's my teacher, my mentor, and we both learnt all the acting basics from our father.

The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.

Without the name, any flower is still more or less a stranger to you. The name betrays its family, its relationship to other flowers, and gives the mind something tangible to grasp. It is very difficult for persons who have had no special training to learn the names of the flowers from the botany.

Daddy - I remember when he first let me drive the cultivator for him, you know... He eased you into the hard work that you had to do later.

I learned a lot from my father.

My father had a sitar made for me that was half the size of a normal one.

I am not a farmer; I am a researcher who studies the plants that come to your dinner table, which means that I ask questions for a living.

My mother was a midwife and a herbalist, so we would go on these long walks, looking for yarrow or rosehips or whatever she needed to make her tinctures.

A blade of grass is always a blade of grass, whether in one country or another.

Botany I rank with the most valuable sciences.

Even my going back to school was to inspire young people that it's never too late to education. That's all I can do, and try to be the best father and husband that I can be.